From The A-J's Pages

Posted: June 30, 2012 - 12:14am

Saturday, June 30

25 years ago:

A new Sony front-loading Betamax videocassette recorder sells for $340.

50 years ago:

A larger than usual mosquito hatch is keeping crews busy in the city-county spraying and dusting program, according to Walter Breedlove, chief engineer with the City-County Health Department. Mosquitoes from these large hatches, from west of New Deal and Abernathy, have been blowing into Lubbock in large numbers.

75 years ago:

Announcement that the new town of “Yoga” has been founded in what he predicts will become “the greatest oil field in Texas,” was made here by A.A. Kinney of Yoga, while on a business visit to Lubbock.

100 years ago:

Snyder – After three or four days of hot winds and distressing sandstorms, the section of West Texas got the heaviest rain yesterday evening that has fallen here in five or six years.